Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev signed a decree renaming the October Revolution Day on the Day of History and the Memory of His Ancestors. November 7 and 8 in the country will recall the events of 1916, when there was an uprising against the Russian Empire. The text of the decree is published on the website of the head of state.
The document emphasizes that the Kirghiz people for the whole three-thousand-year history aspired to independence. "The people's striving for freedom was the main driving force of the events of 1916. The cruel suppression of the uprising by Russian punishers, the numerous cases of massacre of civilians and their forced relocation to a foreign land put the people of Kyrgyzstan on the brink of survival, "the decree reads. It is emphasized that the most bloody events occurred in 1916 in the fall.
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